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Originally Posted by davidfor
You don't need calibre for this either. In fact, by choosing the extended driver, you have specifically chosen to use an unsupported feature of the reader (sideloading kepubs). The rest, shelves or even just getting books on the devices, calibre is the simplest way to do it as it is for a lot of the other readers.
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You telling me, that there is a way to put few thousand books onto shelves without Calibre? I am in agreement with you, I am not used to Calibre, and just used it's default settings. It is to the Kobo credit, that I even had to use it, right?
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Originally Posted by davidfor
As to the status line and other things, Kobo are the designers of the software, and have decided that is the way to go. Making a suggesting is reasonable, but demanding is not.
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I am sorry, Kobo designers managed to create the worst handled pages of all the readers on the market, the slowest sync of content on the market today. I am not demanding, just stating facts. I should not need to learn to use css, Calibre to just comfortably use reading device for reading. It is reasonable to expect that.
I hope Kobo managers understand it is not demands, it is reasonable expectations and unfortunately endless frustration, when they are not met.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
But, how do you not have full control over synchronization? It only happens when you trigger it: push the button or connect to the PC and use the desktop app. You don't want to synchonize, then don't. And from the fact you are sideloading books so many books, it doesn't sound like you need to sync at all.
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Well, ideally, you should be correct- load my library, my Kobo books and never plug my ereader again. But, life is not perfect,
I loaded my books first using just file browser on my computer. Waited of hour and a half for Aura to process the lot, notice- no Calibre, figured I got 200+ page library and no way to organize it without some help, so I decided to remove all the books, using my computer file manager again, and so I did, after that Aura just pretended that books were still there, so I had to relog...because whatever I did Aura did not want to update it's database. Then I went on to figure out shelves, Calibre, css, orphans and widows, took hours...and about 5 synchronizations. And I still have to create my own specific sub collection for Aura only, so it is fast, current and displays correctly...Because I want to know how to do it the way I like it, and you should agree, I have a lot to learn with Kobo. And it feels that I shouldn't have to.